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Great resource for reading comprehension worksheets. This Ereading worksheet page has been created byMr. Donald MortonThat, as it is said in his page “is a prolific online reading, language arts, and teaching enthusiast“. Mr. Morton holds a B.A. in English from Northern Illinois University and an M.A. in Literature from Northeastern Illinois University.

This page provides teachers, parents, and motivated students with high-qualityreading comprehension worksheets, activities, and resources aligned withCommon Core State Standards. In this website you can find the reading worksheets by grade level.

It has a growing collection of online reading activities and everything is free for home and classroom use.

Apart for reading comprehension worksheets you can find a great collection of useful worksheet as you can see in the webpage.

Anyway I would like to hightlight some that I have been used in my clsses and that have been a great help for my students. These are the Reading Worksheets by Grade Level. You have also the correct answers.

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One common exercise not only in exams, but also in class are reading comprehension exercises. A very important skill to be promoted in our students. It is a fact that, sometimes, reading comprehension is a hard process in the adquisition of a second language for our learners but it is essential for them.

We can say that the first step consits on recognizing letters and words. But we all know that is very important for our students to comprehend, or understand, what they are reading. What is the meaning of the text: What does the author want to tell the reader? This is reading comprehension, and it is an essential skill for success in school and in the real world.

In “K12readers” page you can use their free, printable reading comprehension passage exercises to improve your student’s reading skills.

The worksheets are grouped by grade, that include passages and related questions. Click on the title to view the printable activities in each grade range, or to read the details of each worksheet. They are free for use at home or in the classroom.

The Three Spinners

The Ugly Duckling

Hansel and Gretel

Little Red Riding Hood

The Emperor's new clothes

The Lion and The Mouse

Pinocchio

Goldilocks and the three bears

Jack and the Beanstalk

The shree little pigs

Thanks to little readers channel for this wonderful collection. You can click here or on the image and look for more titles.

Dream Animals

Surf's Up

Animal Strike at the zoo

LMNO Peas

Bear says thanks

Moo, BAA, LA LA LA

Bear's NewFriends

Curious George says thank you

Yellow copter

Frog on a log?

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

Nighttime

Under the Sleepy Stars

The idea of this reading aloud videos want to be an activity to the development of curiosity and a love of learning. And, of course this collection can help you to develop your child’s reading skills, so they can enjoy the numerous benefits of reading.

Great site for reading:

In the next video you can learn about CommonLit: how to make an account, sync student accounts, search the library, assign a text, and grade. BONUS: get a quick view of student features like Guided Reading Mode and the toolbar.

Everything you need to know about CommonLit in less than 10 minutes

Webinar: Getting Started with CommonLit Digital

Here there is a great site for reading to help your students:CommonLit that is a completely free literacy resource design for 3rd – 12th grade classrooms. The resource is accessible on any internet-enabled device , questions, and tools for helping students improve their ELA skills. Overall, CommonLit offers a wealth of possibilities for the classroom.

It offers a growing collection of literacy resources include nonfiction documents, historical texts, poems, news articles, and all of them have some assessment tools and are aligned to CCSS.

This website is very helpful for educators looking to select texts for lesson plans. The site allows you to choose appropriate texts for your students. So that, you can choose: a theme, discussion question, and grade level-band. CommonLit also includes text-dependent and discussion questions, vocabulary definitions, paired texts, and teacher guides.

As a teacher,if you sign in you can have your own dashboard where you can see all the assignments your student’s progress (organized by class), and you can also add a new assignment to send out to your students.

In addition, you can download the pdf and your students can read at the same time they can listen to the audio.

One more interesting thing is the dictionary . Just only you or your student select the word from the text with the mouse. Then, click the button with the open book icon to look the word up.

With CommonLit the students can also highlight, and translate features. All of these are great for helping students with different needs.

Reading comprehension on line to improve your english and to teach. In mrnussbaum.comyou will find out very interesting reading comprehension with activities on line apart from many other resources based in different school subjetcs. This webpage includes many with games also as it is shown below.

The reading comprehensions are organised in 5 different grades:

Grades 1 and 2

Grades 3 and up

Grades 4 and up

Grades 5+

What it’s very interesting indeed is that in grades 1 and 2 you also have the audio.

GREAT RESOURCES: More than 100 useful and lovely storybook patterns (pictures/flashcards) related with story books and classic tales to download.Next you have an example.At the bottom of the page,you’ll find the updated story list.You can also watch some of these stories in video.

BITS is a great and useful page created by Skip Reske. As he says, the only purpose of this site is to help students improve their listening and reading comprehension of the English language.‘BITS English Language Learning’ is completely non-profit and contains no advertising.

A great page totally recomendable:Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources. Here, you can find lots and lots of useful resources, ideas and lesson plans for different ages and levels.

Are you looking for resources in order to exploit some books or stories with your children? If so, this is the right page. Have a look and don’t miss it.

Personally, I love “lapbooks” ideas and how they work. They are mainly based in different story books.

Here I leave the different sections of this wonderful page in order you can go there directly.